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Fedi is consistently better at answering my technical questions than StackExchange ever was, tbh

@NafiTheBear @amapanda @OpenStreetMapUS This is exactly what always ends up frustrating me about these cases. Nominally open communities going "but Matrix/IRC/whatever is not good enough", and instead of investing time/money into contributing to fixing that problem, they invest that same time or money into buying a proprietary solution...

This happens *so often* and it's a really good example of how a sense of solidarity is frequently completely missing in open-source (and otherwise 'open') communities. This stuff isn't going to happen by itself.

Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 🤯😱😢

Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. 😢😢 Ouch.

This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!

read more on the slack (while you still can??!): osmus.slack.com/archives/C029H
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra

@Zurdo Thanks! This is very helpful, and confirms what I suspected - the when_failed values are different in the JSON output compared to the plaintext output :)

(Now to find someone with a disk that is "failing now" and my data should be complete :p)

rollercoaster accident analysis 

I'm so used to accident analyses being a never-ending series of "and then they cut a corner here, and they saved a buck there, and that's why it happened".

So I'm positively amazed at this case where it seems that the operator actually did everything by the book, and proactively responded to the problem: youtube.com/watch?v=ApYID0lAiQ

shitpost, kink 

I'll have my first spanking lesson tomorrow.

I hope I get good marks.

@max Somewhat :p I'm trying to avoid having to read source code to figure out the possible values for the failure state (for handling the output automatically)

I need a reasonably popular Youtuber to start a viral 'no to fascism' campaign, something that takes off beyond our wildest expectations, spreads to TikTok, results in remixes by a ton of artists, which then also go viral.

Like, to the point where nobody can just unsub from a few of their favourite creators, because there's too many of them to just ignore it as a protest, and it starts showing up in everyone's recommendations.

We don't truly meme enough, and that needs to change.

@raito I need specifically the output of the attributes in JSON format; other flags would not be a problem

Vandaag was onze klimmer weer eens te vinden in Amelisweerd voor een klimtraining. Deze training kwam voort uit een filmvertoning over de Alti bosbezetting in Duitsland gecombineerd met een praatje vanuit Amelisweerd niet geasfalteerd.

In de bos zag de klimmer dat spandoek in solidariteit met Atlanta forest weer eens in de knoop hing, maar door tijd gebrek is het niet gelukt om het spandoek weer recht te hangen. Daar gaat onze klimmer nog een keer voor terug. Het spandoek hangt er nu bijna een jaar. En zo lang de tekst goed leesbaar blijft, blijft ie nog hangen

You can just be a girl if you want. It’s okay. Or a boy, or something else, or no gender at all. You’re not too old, or too young, or too much, or not enough, or trespassing, or appropriating, or causing trouble. It’s okay. Really.
The important thing is: do what you want, not what you think you’re allowed. Find the joy and follow that. You can experiment and you can change your mind. That’s okay too.

foss nerds: rtfm!!!
the manual:
--archive, -a archive mode is -rlptgoD (no -A,-X,-U,-N,-H)

Actually, let's make this into a public request; if you have a HDD with failing SMART attributes of any sort, please run `smartctl --attributes --json` with a decently recent version (the nixpkgs one is definitely good enough) and send me the output!

(I'm specifically interested in how failing metrics are represented, so completely healthy drives are not useful here)

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sex work 

i don't know who needs to hear this, but sex work doesn't have to be a soulless act.

for some reason there's a social stigma surrounding sex workers that they shouldn't enjoy their job, that they're just doing it for the money and so on.

sex work is an art, and many of us get into it for the same reasons as any other artist: to enjoy doing something that we love.

its okay to do sex work just because you like others seeing you naked, its okay to do it because you like to fuck, and its okay to do it because you're a kinky slut.

its okay to dedicate your life to it because is just what you vibe with.

you don't owe it to anyone to treat it as just a job and a paycheck, not even to the people who are paying you.

for all its faults, Stratford station can actually be kind of pretty sometimes

"I need a HDD with failing SMART data" and other phrases indicative of moderately cursed software development projects

software development meta 

A reminder that the most useful feedback often doesn't come from the people who love your project or the people who hate it, but from those who have serious concerns but continue using and recommending it anyway

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